Regarding the comments ive read about the direct sale option...I dont understand the fuss. The only people who would not benefit from direct item sales (new or old) are those who sell rare items on the GTN at absurd prices. This is a move that players have been asking for years. im not a betting man - So dropping $40 or more on a gamble has never been appealing to me. 9 times out of 10 Ive always had my eye on one item per pack. I also dont want to spend 100 to upwards of 200 mil on a saber or armor set. I do however have a comfortable amount of disposable income in RL and very little time to make 2 billion credits in game. This gives people like me the option to obtain the items I want without giving some random player who got a lucky click a small fortune. People have and will always participate in microtransactions the only difference is they've given an alternative to gambling. At the end of the day everyone has invested their time and money into pixels. Be it with a subscription or a shiny item.

All conjecture and heresay. Thats all any of it really is. A good way of combating gloom and doom rumors is not to exacerbate them by creating the end is nigh threads. They just recently did server merges - doing another so soon is pointless and a waste of manpower. Besides if everyone was on one server - that would rapidly spiral the supposedly dying subscription base into an even faster descent - due to all the performance issues that would follow in result of it.

One of my issues that comes to mind - I accidently deleted an armor piece of my xp armor when i was putting new mods in. I created a ticket and the following day the deleted item was back in my inventory. The rep had a great sense of humor and very polite and even apologized for the delay. It mustve taken him 12 plus hours (which is a timely manner for me ) to resolve MY goof up and he was actually nice enough to apologize.

Ha in this case - its nice to be proven wrong . Good to see some positivity Great work peter !

Scratch that...

Agreed. I never had any game breaking bugs. Ive played since launch and had to contact CS maybe 5 times and ive never had any poor experiences with them. Such as the story of CS.... You never see anyone go out of their way to give a positive experience - only negative ones.

My thoughts exactly...misery loves company

The old pvp gearing at launch felt more like a gamble. How is it Hypocritical ? Hypocritical would be me coming on here announcing my departure and getting on to others for doing the same thing. I merely stated i can never understand why people feel the need to announce "hey everyone im no longer interested in the game im leaving now !"

This ^^^^ multiplied by infinity. I couldnt agree more Ardrossan. I never understood conquests appeal. All its ever done is caused me to quit guilds when the GL or officers try to make me feel obligated to take time out of my life for something i have no interest in just to reach their quota. Not to mention I personally think the rewards are %/#&^ and so is the CXP gained from it. I have CC Saved up from subbing and security key and they can bet im going to use them. Becauae its what im interested in and if i want to spend my money on an item I will. Unless they are paying for my sub - their say in the matter is worthless.

Gearing was an absolute joke and so was pvp along with many other aspects of the game at the beginning. The only thing i miss was the class trees at launch. If youd played since launch - it shouldnt have to be pointed out. But failing to acknowledge any of the positive changes and only focusing on the negative doesnt fit your narrative I suppose. You dont like the command system but youve reached 300 with multiple toons. Unintentionally or intentional? Either way youve reached the goal rank. Was it a painful drawn out grind or too easy ? For me personally ive done far worse grinds and depending on when you played SWG youd know that. Did you grind your way to jedi b4 nge? Did you grind GCW rank to General ? Did you grind DWB for materials for a full set of mandalorian armor? 2/3 of that you needed teams to accomplish it. Cxp is cakewalk in comparison and its soloable . Because of that ...it makes it hard to believe youre an swg veteran or youre just trying to make cxp sound worse than it actually Is - again to fit your narrative. I dont understand the fuss about conquest. I never cared for it. Whenever a guild tried to make me feel obligated to do a series of grinds that i care nothing about id /gquit. I play at my own pace - I dont pay a monthly sub to reach someone elses quota - I have a job for that. If youre no longer enjoying the game and want to quit - by all means do so..youre not wrong to discontinue paying for a game you dont enjoy. It just makes no sense to me why people feel they have to announce their departure . Why not just leave without all the dramatics ?

No i will not. Take a look at my post history. You will find very little. For the most part ive been a happy customer. Ive played since beta, also since day one and up until now ive never had any complaints with any of the expansions or the game in general. Even when i took a few breaks a couple of months i never once unsubbed. So im not just one of the regulars (doom and gloom naysayers) im speaking for myself only. These changes are just too much. Why did they go RNG? It sucked with BM Bags and it sucks now. Its so slow and the drop rate is terrible. Since the launch ive gotten one piece. Why make it so alt unfriendly when just before it was implemented they promoted a system built on creating alts? NO WAY im doing this with 17 characters Its no longer fun, its tedious, its boring and its stressful. That means its time to look elsewhere. I never liked rng, my hatred for it is what prevented me from ever buying cm crates. I dont like gambling. I bought what i wanted from players. Now the whole character advancement is based on it. I cant even bring myself to play for free much less continue to pay. Even if i had the top gear..what good is it? Ill just be running the same stuff ive been doing for years. When are they going to learn this story approach is only good for a few hours.

A comic relief is very seldom integral to the plot of the story and many of the companions in game offer very little to the story. I dont know where you got the impression that i thought gus or jarjar was integral. I hope i just misunderstood you. They are needless i agree - forgettable? Hardly. Ill always hate jarjar and guss will always be that favorite comical companion for me. Make no mistake - I prefer jaesa over guss but theres nothing wrong with a little comic relief in a game if done right. especially if we have the option to put him away. Jarjar was in our face and the voice actor was a lot less tolerable . Im glad we can agree to disagree. I just found it pretty bold to state guss was universally hated.

What im saying is you made a broad generalization based off character roles. There are plenty of reasons why guss made me chuckle and jarjar made me cringe.

I can appreciate that youve included "as far youre concerned" I dont share that view, aside from being a comic relief guss and jarjar are nothing alike to me...but everyones sense of humor differs. If i were looking to paint a negative picture of jaesa - I could just as well state her character is very similar to haydens performance of vader based simply off of them sharing similar character roles.

Aowin, while i loved jaesa as a companion for SW, I also loved Guss as a smuggler companion. I personally hate treek. All that shrieking she does is like nails on a chalkboard for me . I CANT even stand next to a player that has her out without leaving or hitting mute.- but Im not going to go around telling people shes a terrible companion. We get it, you dont like guss but Youre dead wrong about him being universally hated. The only companion that would probably have such a title would be if they were to create a gungan companion with the identical personality and voice of jarjar binks.

Yet on the sly - you label anyone who doesn't empathize with your predicament as shallow, then turn around and say it's not an attack. Self reflect? You're speaking to an adult - so give up the Dr.phil routine and accept the obvious. You're peeved because you missed a very large window and you can't wait 7 measly days So you create an asinine thread

Here's an analogy ...This may help you understand why most of us are not empathizing with you. Say I collect clothing and sporting goods. For months I follow online sports & fashion feeds in social media of a launch date of a very particular pair of jordan's . I get up early just to go wait in line bored for hours yet ripe with anticipation. Now once I've acquired the shoes..some guy ( who just arrived outside the shoe store minutes before It closes ) approaches me and tells me he was out on vacation and just got wind of the sale. He offers to buy the shoes off me for the same price I paid. His reasoning as to why he should get the shoes for the same price Is because he's not asking for them for free. Well what about everything I've done to ensure my spot in line to acquire the shoes - while you were off doing better things ? His offer would actually offend me a little. Don't get me wrong , you gaining early access & items would not affect my game play... but rather a lot of subscribers including myself would feel cheated and lied to If we saw people gaining access by throwing money at BW at the last minute because they couldn't be bothered to meet the requirements like all the rest of us. Some of us could've just done the same thing.

I don't think I'll be using a free lvl 60. I have 16 characters all of them fully geared at lvl 60. I've been itching to see them come to life again story wise. I feel ( for me at least ) that it would take away from the story by rolling a cookie cutter character. I want to experience it with my main toons. On top of that I will want to try the new scale ops at max level with the guildies. Maybe sometime down the line after I've ran all my toons through level 65 I will give it a go out of sheer boredom.

Posting to find out..editing to update 1421737 Beta player also

I don't believe that they would ever permanently implement this. It would be like shooting themselves in the feet. We may see it again as an event ( It was an extremely generous event ) should they introduce a new level cap.

Lol you've described me to a T. I'm the same exact way. Sometimes I just buy the full set to avoid having to pay an absurd amount later on. Because we all know that there's mostly one or two pc's of an armor set that's more expensive than the rest.

I have a stable of alts in different outfits. Unless you spend them all on consumables and cartel packs. Which I'm not a fan of. you can simply buy from the GTN with in game creds and unlock from there. Given the amount we receive - It's unquestionably doable.

As a subscriber you should know that we get free monthly Cartel coins. So yes what I said still Is very much accurate. I don't know how you use your free coins but that's where mine goes

I'm going to have to agree with every point that EnkiduNineEight has made - Wholeheartedly. I've reached lvl 60 10 times now and I'm currently working on more (multiple servers) I don't feel I deserve an unlock that allows me to zip to lvl 60 because of a legacy criteria I've met years ago - while casuals and new players are left behind. With the ability to duplicate weapons, armor, mounts and crystals - I feel the perks granted with the legacy system Is enough. That alone gives me more than any new or casual player when leveling a new alt. On top of that I have tons of purples i could craft. ( Which Is almost rendered useless as Is because I level too fast ) No, that's not enough though... You need MORE! If BW caved into this ( Which I'm fairly certain they will not ) I wouldn't be surprised If people started asking for Instant level 60 upon character creation because the story line Is too long.

LOL good luck with that.